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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: More FM propaganda... by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"] Can you describe how your vinyl playback and conventional CD playback fall short of what you are getting from FM? [/quote] Guy, you are asking a resemble question but what do you expect me to say? Do you expect me to conv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: Get more DB from you tuner by Romy the Cat on 2023-08-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"]…in particular TU-X1 tuner needs quite some amplification…. [/quote]It is not necessary the case. My TU-X1 has nigh output, no different than all of my other front ends. If you look at the schematics of the TU-X1 then you mig...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The “Right of Spring” – eventually!!! by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Right of Spring” – eventually!!! in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
It was a mystery for me. I love Stravinsky but I hate the “Right of Spring”. I made so many attempts to “get” the “Right of Spring” that it became almost masochistic – considering that I do love and appreciate many other Stravinsky works. I own doz...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to record FM broadcasts. by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
My tastes in audio slowly but irreversibly migrate out of the “common audiophile sense”.  Years ago I met some people form NY and Chicago, the former classical radio-station employees, the people with encyclopedic knowledge and understanding of m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: maybe this thing.. -Shanling mc-30 by Simon on 2007-04-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hi-Fi Mini Systems in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
I find it quite ugly, and who knows about the sound, but maybe another company has a similar product you could listen to... MC-3 Music Center 2006.12 produce Combining high quality CD player, tuner, dedicated i-PO...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1707: PP and Phono - Help needed by N-set on 2020-11-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I finally got a PP unit. It is 1500W model as this is enough for now. It is the actual Golden version (Plus not available anymore) but the PP factory claims it's identical electrically just in a new aluminium case and some extras added. I managed...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: CES 2006: Horns by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: CES 2006 in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
Part 5: HornsIt was quite bad, bad on all horns….. The first was the  “new horns guy”  … (references to: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=484) This year behaved quite nicely. Seeing me he immediately told that he has not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Practicalities by N-set on 2019-12-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sansui TU-X1 Broadcast monitor. in Off Air Audio  56 Replies 
Thanks for your responses guys. Would be great to learn some practical procedures how to setup a tuner/antenna combo properly. Any ideas where to find some sort of a tutorial? For example I'd love to learn what are the tuning scope images in t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
As a new concert season is coming up with BSO opening night next week I was sprucing up my recording studio. The machine is 3MHz with 2G memory – plenty run SoundLab5. The SoundLab just record and play, I do absolutely nothing else in this software, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: ABC FM by gormee on 2009-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What to do in office? in Off Air Audio  33 Replies 
Hi romy, I am sorry I will not be much help regarding sound quality of FM at present. I do not currently record but hope to do so in the future. My FM stereo reception is poor but this is mostly to do with my aerial. I also live in a d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: DAB+ by gormee on 2009-05-29 
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Understood. Thank you as always for the technical info. I mentioned the DAB+ becasue the ABC are spending all their time and money implementing digital. 1st July is the start. You might glean some info on perceived quality of this format if re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Re: Endless more digital .... by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
[quote user="jtavan"] I would be interested to hear your reaction to the same CD ripped properly on a CD-ROM drive rather than recorded from SPDIF stream. If your transport is VERY good, they should be equivalent... but on damaged discs, or with bad ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Tube tuna by doug s. on 2009-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A tube tuner? REL Precedent 646C in Off Air Audio  24 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  doug s. wrote: i have never heard the rel.  but, if you want to hear a tubed tuna at its best, pick up a sherwood s3000ll or later, get it serviced, and run it thru one of your mpx decoders.  or get one w/a built-in sh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: “….the linearity of the Berning in comparison with the Lamm is quite r... by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Devid Berning amplifiers: the anti-trnsformers frenzy? in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
[quote user="Merlin"] If there's one thing I hate about internet forums it's people postulating about sounic characteristics and possible failing in equipment they have never heard. [/quote] Merlin, I was under impression that it is very obvious tha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Listening to specific case is precisely my point, typology be damned by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
Cat:First off, the Silbatone Aporia is $30k/pr not 100k. You could do 6 speaker surround with Aporia for well under $100k. Hope you feel better now."So what," I say. $30k is already too much for my pocket. I am on a fellowship this year and cheapskat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Subjective push-ups: Bidat vs. Lavry D924 by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A littlie D-War: Bidat vs. Lavry Gold in Didital Things  14 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It would be more complicated then that… as they do better or worth under the different conditions… I will be posting my further comments into this thread… Stand by….[/quote]A few words about the measurements above. When I m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Reel-to-Reel Tape vs. Raw Better Digital by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reel-to-Reel Tape vs. Raw Better Digital in Didital Things  13 Replies 
I was pointed out to an endeavor of Type Project where the guy who trade Bottlehead kits is trying to promote contemporary 15ips master dubs and staff eBay machine with Bottlehead-level of electronics. http://www.tapeproject.com It is no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: DC offset for A/D converters. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DC offset for A/D converters. in Didital Things  0 Replies 
Since the new revised Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 become a leading recoding tuner and since I bound with Lavry A/D, the Lavry prosessor makes a good come back. The competition between Lavry AD122 and Pacific Microsonics never was finalized and I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The year 2008 and fulfillment of audio objectives. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Summary: my/your audio: year by year in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] In the 2008 I have a few immediate goals: 1)    Finalize the 6-chennals version of Super Melquiades and integrate it with Macondo 2)    Finalize the “End of Life" Phonostage: 3)  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: NESPA Optical Disc Finalizer by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: NESPA Optical Disc Finalizer in Didital Things  4 Replies 
The visitors of my site who have read my observations about the CES 2005 http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=1918 are familiar with my very positive impressions about NESPA Optical Disc Finalizer. http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeIte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: A sad end of the Rohde & Schwarz era. by Romy the Cat on 2014-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new FM Classical scene in Boston in Off Air Audio  47 Replies 
During the last 2 years I am slowly trying to reevaluate my relationship with FM in Boston. The two major FM stations WCRB and WHRB are getting worse very rapidly sound wise. The WHRB is wonderfully station with very stimulating host and good prog...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: If I was doing it… by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best Third Movement from “Der Titan” in Musical Discussions  9 Replies 
I do not care about the Bruno Walter’s or the Mahler’s himself comments. I care about myself and in the way how I want it to play not one plays, and I am disappointed. I am not a huge fun of Mahler First Symphony; in fact I am not a huge fun ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: The APS regenerator: the joy and disappointments. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Well, another page of my saga with APS regenerator is turned. I got the updated APS unit. It kind of “works” as I redefined the definition of word “works”. Under normal circumstances I would walk away from it but there are some moments in my “bad ele...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #177: Read sun is rising... by Romy the Cat on 2019-08-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
There are some commercial preamps that have sub 10R output: Karana, Quicksilver, Rogueaudio and many others. Some of them will ship the units to you to try. It might be good to experiment with them. To have you local guy who will work with you is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: (Hopefully short) headphone journey by scooter on 2013-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: (Hopefully short) headphone journey in Audio Discussions  11 Replies 
These days I am traveling frequently and relegated to listening to music via headphones and "portable" sources. I will briefly post my brief journey as a personal log. It might provide a starting point for those who might find themselves in the same ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #357: The era of enlightenment. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The events of the last 3 days are incredibly stupid, incredibly interesting and very educational. During the last few days I have discovered some very interesting phenomena, ok might be no a phenomena but a behavior, th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Some other excellent thought on the subject. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How many Bits needed for FM, the Accuphase T1000 dilemma. in Off Air Audio  6 Replies 
  //***************************************************************** This all brings us back to fm_login's original question. (By the way, fm_login, what's your first name?) Speaking from first-hand experience, I've found that the best broadc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: More ansvers..... by Romy the Cat on 2015-06-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"] 25 turn pot in the filament supply.  For the life of me I can't source a 25 turn pot.  The 10 turn Bourns 3590 is the closest I can find.  Do I need to keep looking for a more sensitive pot or do you think 10 turn is managea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: More on X1 by N-set on 2019-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sansui TU-X1 Broadcast monitor. in Off Air Audio  56 Replies 
Hi guys, Thank you for the comments. I'm a complete newbie to RF, long learning curve ahead. 1) Antenna - My guiding was Romy's finding (backed by Dima) that this tuner is easily overdriven with too strong an ant...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Oh wow! by N-set on 2019-12-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sansui TU-X1 Broadcast monitor. in Off Air Audio  56 Replies 
Just incorporated this wonder into my system! haven't heard a live orchestra broadcast yet but even voices from the studio have something special, some magic aura. This is how I use it: - cleaned (down to dismant...
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